Example sentences of "just make [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 2 | He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece . |
| 3 | Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains . |
| 4 | Down below , lost in the mist , he could just make out the holm-oaks and cypresses surrounding the Miletti property , a lugubrious baroque monstrosity built on a shoulder of land jutting out from the steep hillside . |
| 5 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 6 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 7 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not talking about someone who is going to Barcelona just to make up the numbers . |